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TIL about Guinea worm disease, a water borne parasite.

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g0KW TIL The TLC network (Home of Honey Boo Boo, The Duggars, Little People, Sarah Palin’s Alaska, etc) was originally created by NASA and the Department of Health, Education and Welfare to provide “real education through the medium of television”.
6l58 TIL: The launch of a Saturn V rocket is so loud, producing about 220 dB, that grass upwards of a mile away ignites by the sound alone.
4k8Ja TIL Vanna White holds the title for “Televisions most frequent clapper”, clapping more than 600/episode and more than 3.7 MILLION a over her career!
5Ywmk TIL That a microscopically small bubble of nitrogen, that had not completely dissolved into a titanium ingot, caused a DC-10, with 300 people on board, to lose hydraulics and crash land.
wNJ1 TIL bananas are actually used for scale… for measuring radioactivity